this agrees with implementation practice on glibc and BSD systems, and
is the const-correct way to do things; it eliminates warnings from
passing pointers to const. the prototype without const came from
seemingly erroneous man pages.
this is a trivial no-op, because dlclose never deletes libraries. thus
we might as well have it in the header in case some application wants
it, since we're already providing it anyway.
based on patch by Pierre Carrier <pierre@gcarrier.fr> that just added
the flag constant, but with minimal additional code so that it
actually works as documented. this is a nonstandard option but some
major software (reportedly, Firefox) uses it and it was easy to add
anyway.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be
obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such
as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX
with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will
inhibit the default.
installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
based on patches submitted by boris brezillon. this commit also fixes
the issue whereby the main application and libc don't have the address
ranges of their mappings stored, which was theoretically a problem for
RTLD_NEXT support in dlsym; it didn't actually matter because libc
never calls dlsym, and it seemed to be doing the right thing (by
chance) for symbols in the main program as well.
Rich Felker